Photo: Cheaper solar: Nanosolar’s thin-film panels.Credit: Nanosolar
From Technology Review:
Nanosolar's new factory could help lower the price of solar power, if the market cooperates.
A promising type of solar-power technology has moved a step closer to mass production. Nanosolar, based in San Jose, CA, has opened an automated facility for manufacturing its solar panels, which are made by printing a semiconductor material called CIGS on aluminum foil. The manufacturing facility is located in Germany, where government incentives have created a large market for solar panels. Nanosolar has the potential to make 640 megawatts' worth of solar panels there every year.
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